Getting some chicken nuggets cause I'm buying da dip
Careful what you wish for
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Did you turn that dirty fiat into hard money yet?
The whole notion of it being a mistake is selfishly short sighted. There must always be a "first" purchase. Whether a pizza or a taco. Whether it was in 2010 or 2024. There must always be a first.
You can only proceed with the information available at hand at the time of the decision. How could he have predicted the 2024 price? Should he have made his purchase based on his estimated 2024 price? What about 2124? It's just such a flawed notion.
In any case, looking back (hindsight 20/20) yes in today's terms he paid a lot. But without it and assuming no one else did similar the next day or the next or the next or the next.. bitcoin would have never been used for payments. Arguably lightning wouldn't have happened. And in all likelihood, bitcoin would remain without a use case, gotten no press, and have dwindled to nothing.
Have you bought anything with bitcoin today? Wow what a mistake. 14 years from now that's probably worth a fortune. So shld we all just hodl forever and do absolutely nothing with it? Lets give it no use case and while we're at it, lets freeze all development and maintenence of the code. Bet that'll make the value skyrocket 🙄
Was buying pizza with bitcoin a mistake? A short term sacrifice for long term gain maybe, but a mistake? Far from it.
I'm kind of the opposite. I have a hard time focusing when one on one and lose my train of thought. But I can talk in front of a crowd and present no problem as long as I'm moderately prepared.
Maybe imagining you're in a one on one setting when presenting to a group can be helpful? Focus on one audience member at a time perhaps?
I want to #zap you 2,100 Sats!
Good morning #nostr! It has been about a month since I joined and I'm loving "Self-Soverign Social".
My challenge has been connecting with like minded folks, which is surprising because if we are both here on nostr we likley share at least an interest in decentralization and #bitcoin.
So I want to try a little experiment this morning. I have just under 500,000 sats or about $350 in my nostr:npub1flm9yc3vhc3dj036pn3ysl5xwd4f5gyhyjnn9rzehs5mqe9y9ynq6qrg9q account, I want you to help me empty it!
Please follow me (if you are not already) and share this post and I'll zap you 2,100 sats until I run out or have to leave the office. It's about 8:45AM EDT, and I'll be zappin' until at least 3PM (or until I'm broke).
In theory this should yield about 235 paid engaugements, which will hopefully amplify my presance here and help me connect with some like minded folks.
Lets see how it works out, I'll share my results!
I'll bite!
No one ever wants to hear it but America is NOT winning.
All those chants of USA USA we're number one have done jack shit. Imagine that. Almost as if you have to get off your ass and do the hard thing to make a difference. What a novel idea.
Our own government is attacking us financially and selling us out. Foreign actors are attacking us culturally and poisoning our youth. Our food is trash, we have very little industry and our legal system is pay to play.
It's all completely fucked up yet everyone wants to believe we are still the top dog. Head in the sand while the weasels gnaw our legs.
GN everydan
nostr:npub14q8uffuxxnhzd24u4j23kn8a0dt2ux96h5eutt7u76lddhyqa0gs97ct2x stacking dans like a boss
I think the lessons bitcoin inadvertantly teaches us is a huge one. Since most of us here are bitcoiners so that becomes the binding thread.
Many of the bitcoin mantras resonate with many of us when it comes to interpersonal relationships, morals, ethics, privacy and security, views on economy and productivity. Etc. So many of the things like having low time preference, don't trust verify, stay humble, sound money, value for value, are apparent in each of us.
Not everyone embodies all the same values and we often disagree but there is still a significant overlap across modt of us that ties everyone together despite our differences.
I myself am not religious but I see that many people here are very much so. A lot of the morals bitcoin teaches us, such as family values/selflessness (ex. generational wealth is looking out for those after youre gone) and self sovereignty (ex. Christians often talk abt holy spirit living within you and body is a temple) also ring true in most religions.
Stay weird. Stack dans.